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The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

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The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

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But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

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In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

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But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

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If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

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I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 27th, 1928

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